Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny Cooper thought it almost impossible that three men carrying only sixty small bombs between them had created such havoc and destruction . |
| 2 | But at least he had released her from that disturbing contact with his wide , strong chest and firm encircling arms , and the physical contact between them had brought one thing home to her very clearly — such a thing must definitely not happen again , or these next months would be utterly impossible . |
| 3 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 4 | The sentences of many of them had expired 17 years ago . |
| 5 | By 1811 only some rural parishes were without any provision , while most of them had registered some improvement over the seventeenth century . |
| 6 | At first they had sat directly opposite him , but as the train travelled through the subterranean tunnel one of them had moved three seats to his left . |
| 7 | Neither of them had breakfasted that morning . |
| 8 | A survey of Aberdeen University students conducted by Peter McKellar showed that about two thirds of them had experienced these sensations , which were slightly more often auditory sensations than visual ones . |
| 9 | At the end of that time , each one of them had experienced unpleasant symptoms ; some became hostile and argumentative ; some had panic attacks and nightmares ; all of them found their attention span had grown shorter and they were finding it more difficult to remember things . |
| 10 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 11 | More thoughtful than either of them had seemed last night . |
| 12 | Oh no of course ver very few of them had got any work . |
| 13 | A couple of them had produced flaming torches from nowhere and were brandishing them with all the zeal of a party of drunken Transylvanian peasants storming Castle Frankenstein during an electrical storm . |
| 14 | Some of them had abandoned front rooms and virtually none opened front windows . |
| 15 | Suppose one of them had used this knife onm me ? |
| 16 | Six weeks before and immediately after the closedown was assumed to be a more stressful time for the 100 men than one and two years later when 90 per cent of them had found alternative employment . |
| 17 | Four of them had had adverse reactions and in one patient cereals had not yet been introduced to the diet . |
| 18 | One of them had had white hair or , Matthew had remarked , it might have been a wig . |
| 19 | ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play . |
| 20 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 21 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |
| 22 | As it flowed , it incorporated into itself masses of loose debris , mud , rubble and boulders , some of them reported to weigh fifty tons . |
| 23 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 24 | Some of them appeared to have police-type uniforms while others carried notebooks or cameras . |
| 25 | Some of them appeared to have police-type uniforms while others carried notebooks or cameras . |